Even the few bits I'm reasonably familiar with are notably different - there's a lot of doubling of musical lines by the choir in Mononoke in places where I'm not used to hear it, even in the "symphonic suite" concert versions that do prominently include a choir elsewhere. The whole album is interestingly quite close and not so close to a Williams film music concert programme - close because it's entirely made up of formal concert arrangements for a standard symphonic ensemble, but not so close because while Williams mostly focuses on individual themes per piece (usually one per score, or multiple separate "movements" for a small suite), Hisaishi generally constructs his pieces from multiple score bits, giving a better approximation of the score as a whole, but at the same time necessarily giving some bits not as much room as they might deserve.įrom what I understand, these all seem to be new arrangements. Wonderful stuff, and mostly new to me, since I've only been familiar with Mononoke and Chihiro until that live concert a couple of months ago. Got this the other day and played it a few times since. ![]() Interesting way to split the album between two discs.
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